A better approach to UK-Caribbean relations

There is an old saying that you wait ages for a London bus and then two (or even three) come along at once. It is not an expression, as far as I am aware, that has ever been applied to policy statements affecting UK-Caribbean relations.

However, in the space of just fourteen days four documents have appeared that will in one- or another-way guide future relations between a stand-alone Britain and the Anglophone Caribbean.

The most specific of these is a joint communiqué on the outcome of the tenth UK-Caribbean Forum held virtually on 18 March, and more importantly its accompanying action plan. Both documents were agreed by Ministers just as Britain was unveiling its long-term post-Brexit security, development, and foreign policy strategy and separately, explaining how the UK intends responding militarily to changing global threats